Kurt Vonnegut Radio with Gabe Hudson

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Gabe Hudson Radio

May 28 2024 48 mins

Thank you to the following people: Mary Bergman, Maureen Clarke, Lola Deneault, Hank Deneault, Erica George, Alena Graedon, Gabrielle Griffis, Andrew Leland, Julia Madsen, Sanchia Semere, Peter Semere, Akhil Sharma, Gary Shteyngart, Deborah Treisman, Jackie Welham We miss you, Gabe. Thank you for being our teacher and forever a student of life and the craft. -Jude Brewer Learn mor

39. Anne Kadet

Oct 27 2023 61 mins

Welcome to episode #39 of Kurt Vonnegut Radio 👀 Today on the show we’ve got the amazing writer Anne Kadet. Anne Kadet writes the beloved newsletter CAFÉ ANNE. Anne Kadet has forged a new kind of journalism to cover New York City. Gabe Hudson talks to Anne Kadet about her beloved newsletter, Caffe Anne, and how she uncovers fascinating stories in New York City that reveals our

38. Mark Wynn

Oct 24 2023 58 mins

Today's guest, Mark Wynn, is the subject of a new documentary film called, This is Where I Learned Not to Sleep, made by award-winning filmmakers Anne de Mare and Kristen Kelly. So who is Mark Wynn? Well he's a former police officer in Nashville who – after listening carefully to the women of Nashville in a way that nobody else was – he started the largest domestic violence pre

37. Jen Taub: host of podcast "Booked Up with Jen Taub"

Oct 19 2023 59 mins

Jen Taub is an acclaimed author, legal scholar, and podcaster extraordinaire. Gabe talks to Jen about why she is putting her whole heart into her podcast Booked Up. This conversation contains many treasures, including the story of how Jen discovered who she was and what was most important to her. Jen Taub, choice quotes from convo On why she started her podcast "Ever since COVID a

36. Dave Eggers Part II

Oct 03 2023 28 mins

This is the 2nd and final part of Gabe's conversation with Dave Eggers Dave opens up and gets candid about his own artistic impulse to pivot with each writing project. He talks about his early days in art school, and what drew him to certain artists. He talks about Lorrie Moore, George Saunders, , and why he thinks Percival Everett is probably the rightful heir to the more radical

35. Dave Eggers Part I

Oct 03 2023 27 mins

Gabe and Dave Eggers have been friends for the last 25 years: since Dave first popped up on the national stage, with his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. And his indie publishing juggernaut: McSweeney's. This interview is, in part, to support Dave's new novel, The Eyes and the Impossible. A novel that’s for all ages. And for the ages. This book is written in th

34. Michael Estrin

Oct 03 2023 26 mins

Gabe interviews special guest author, Michael Estrin , who writes the beloved newsletter, Situation Normal . Around which a big community of fervent super-devoted readers has sprung up. Michael’s comic stories from his life are big-hearted and sometimes weird. When you talk to him about the community of readers that gather around his words, his deep affection for them shines thro

33. Merve Emre

Sep 23 2023 28 mins

Merve is renowned critic, scholar, contributing writer at the The New Yorker, and Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. Gabe and Merve discuss Merve's new piece “What is Mom Rage Actually?” in this week’s The New Yorker. Read Merve Emre’s new piece “What is Mom Rage, Actually?” in this week’s The New Yorker Read Mer

32. Maggie Smith

Sep 20 2023 28 mins

Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful; the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: and author of the beloved, world famous poem, "Good Bones." Maggie Smith’s memoir is truth-telling of the highest order. This book chronicles the peaks and valleys of her odyssey in recent years. How her poem, “Good Bones,” went sup

31. A.M. Homes

Sep 13 2023 25 mins

A.M. Homes is author of 13 books including most recently a novel: The Unfolding. Homes' 2013, May We Be Forgiven, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her memoir, The Mistress's Daughter was published to international acclaim. Her work has been translated into 22 languages. Gabe talks to the iconic writer A.M. Homes about her new novel, The Unfolding, her renowned Barbie story,